The phrase "a pool of labour" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a group of available workers or a workforce in a specific area or industry.
Example: "The city has a large pool of labour, making it an attractive location for new businesses."
Alternatives: "a workforce" or "a labor market".
The ones who want a pool of labour, a cheap pool of labour, that can be used to undercut wages and conditions, bring an element of divisiveness into our communities and put pressure on our public services".
If the euro area lifted its employment ratio to American levels gradually over a 20-year period, this would raise the annual growth rate of the region's productive potential by almost 1%.To tap such a pool of labour would require more radical tax and labour-market reforms than most governments are contemplating.
Cities attract talent; you have a pool of labour, transport and facilities, housing resources".
Whereas choosing from a pool of labour where nearly half the potential talent is disadvantaged will yield a suboptimal workforce where women are underrepresented, particularly in top positions in business and government.
They do the jobs, skilled and unskilled, that British workers will not do and they provide a pool of cheap labour that helps keep wages down and creates the "labour market flexibility" that is so prized by New Labour.
The Australian Council of Trade Unions has warned the scheme would allow businesses to access a pool of free labour instead of employing workers on the minimum wage.
Second, a concentration of firms creates a pool of specialised labour that benefits both workers and employers: the former are likely to find jobs and the latter are likely to find staff.
By providing a pool of manual labour close to the city centre, it also functions like one.Walk the terraced streets of a northern city, Orwell wrote, and "you think that nothing is needed except to tear down these abominations".
Corby had the first of the enterprise zones the government created in the 1980s.Such history provides a pool of skilled labour, as well as lots of suitable sites for industry.
It tried to attract investment to make processed goods for export.Ethiopia was afraid it would become a pool of cheap labour for Eritrean industry and that its own industries would be vulnerable to cheap Eritrean exports.
